The Voice

New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse put it plainly: Unions must make organizing and expanding membership a priority during these tough economic times.

If they don’t stand together, they will fall to employers who horribly mistreat workers to bolster their bottom lines and ensure that executives bring home big bonuses.

Greenhouse, the paper’s labor correspondent since 1995, passed his advice on to more than 50 UUP Stony Brook HSC members—most of them academics—during the chapter’s new UUP Academic Lecture Series. Greenhouse discussed his new book, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, at the March 24 event.